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The duty of a people that have renewed their covenant with God. Opened and…
The duty of a people that have renewed their covenant with God. Opened and urged in a sermon preached to the Second Church in Boston in New-England, March 17. 1679.[/]80. after that church had explicitly and most solemnly renewed the engagement of themselves to God, and one to another. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]The duty of a people that have renewed their covenant with God. Opened and urged in a sermon preached to the Second Church in Boston in New-England, March 17. 1679.[/]80. after that church had explicitly and most solemnly renewed the ingagement of themselves to God, and one to another. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by John Foster, 1680
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Idol of vain Curiosity, provoking men to leave the worship and ways of Gods Institution, and run giddily after new Doctrines and Teachers. These and many others are apt to draw the hearts of men after them, and are to be put away. And if there be any of you that have harboured these or any the like strange gods, its now your work and obligation resolutely to put them away, to be ashamed of them, & to say of them as Ephraim▪ Hos. 14.8. What have I to do any more with Idols? You must bury them as Jacob did those of his Family, when he went to worship God at Bethel, and resolve to dig them up and worship them no more. If, after this day, and these Solemnities, such sins as these, wherever they have been entertained, be not reformed, and by every one carefully watched against, God will look upon himself to be contemned, and you must not think to escape his Judgements.
The Idol of vain Curiosity, provoking men to leave the worship and wayes of Gods Institution, and run giddily after new Doctrines and Teachers. These and many others are apt to draw the hearts of men after them, and are to be put away. And if there be any of you that have harboured these or any the like strange gods, its now your work and obligation resolutely to put them away, to be ashamed of them, & to say of them as Ephraim▪ Hos. 14.8. What have I to doe any more with Idols? You must bury them as Jacob did those of his Family, when he went to worship God at Bethel, and resolve to dig them up and worship them no more. If, after this day, and these Solemnityes, such sins as these, wherever they have been entertained, be not reformed, and by every one carefully watched against, God will look upon himself to be contemned, and you must not think to escape his Judgements.
2. You must now incline your hearts to the Lord God of Israel. The word [incline] signifies to bow or bend to a thing, as the labourer bends to his work, and it serves to express industry and diligence: it signifies also to spread abroad: translated to stretch: